Joe Egan comes from Ireland and moved to Göteborg a couple of years ago where he started Madderfield in the beginning of last year. At the start of this summer he released the debut EP, 5 songs that first of all are based around Joe’s sensitive, expressive voice and his acoustic guitar. It varies in the vibe from english folk pop to a touch of country, with some hint of Nick Drake, but still with his very personal style.
The immediate pearl among the songs is “What Happened to the Boy”, which you can listen to and download here below. Listen to the entire EP on Madderfield’s site and on Spotify. Follow him on Facebook.
Karl Buhre, singer in Alouatta, and his solo project I’ve told you about before. Now he’s released his debut EP “Fieldwork”, which continues along the shores where we found him the last time.
And it’s a wonderful EP, with it’s four tracks, made for lying down in the grass and letting the acoustic guitars roll in some white cloud shapes across the blue sky and dream away together with Karl’s special voice.
Niklas Sibelius used his nick name from high school, when he named his solo project: Varjen (The Wolf). It’s about Americana and indie folk where he mentions The Tallest Man On Earth, The Cave Singers as Frank Turner as influences. Especially Frank Turner comes to mind as I listen to the recently released debut EP “Hardland”, which is maybe most obvious in the last song, “Hardland”, where he almost feels punky in his expression. The room feeling in the sound also makes me think about folk from the eighties and albums like Springsteens “Nebraska”, where I also find more common vibes in for example the beautiful “Shoreline Weeks”, which you can listen to here below.
Jonas Carping’s The Glade released a year ago the EP “Dance For Love”. And a little while ago they rereleased the title track again as a so called “Radio Edit”. I think that it feels more than a standard radio edit, though; it’s a whole new mix where the song has received the attention it needed. There’s a much stronger presence now and the entire song shines. An example of a song that sounded good, but with a better production has become great.
Crying Day Care Choir charmed us a couple of years ago with their folk pop tune “July”. Now they are back with the debut EP in the same musical spirit, the acoustic flower power-vibing “Join the Joyful Revolution”.
And the message is clear: they want to make the world a better place through flowers and love. They also contribute in a more direct way by giving all the profits from the digital release to Yoko Ono’s peace organization Imagine Peace.
About the band name Jack from the band writes:
In the beginning it was meant to refer to how it sounds when children cries uncontrollably in a group. If you ignore the hysteria, they can, in the middle of the sobbing, hit common tones and it sounds like magic.
Then after a while we found that the name also can relate to our purpose with the band; our wish and quest for a better world. Because if you have a “Crying Day”, who doesn’t need a “Care Choir” then? It feels applicable to the world’s situation too :)
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